It was the fact that everywhere you knew was safe was no longer safe. Hell nowhere was safe anymore and that was the scariest thing. There’s nowhere you can really hide (except the fort but eh), you HAVE to fight or continuously run
Actually had the opposite experience! Played undead nightmare first, and the main game second. Was oddly soothing to see all those dead towns come to life, and to not be looking over my shoulder constantly.
Hell those things would be antiques even in 1850, the Chrimean War was fought in and around that time and they used Miné Rifles similar to what would be seen in the American Civil War. The Pillgrims and Jamestown settlers would have been familiar with the Blunderbuss, this gives you an idea how Damn old the things would have been in 1911.
I think it’s funny how he’s really patient and polite with genuinely honest people but is impatient and curt to people who are crooks or scammers of some kind, he can see through their BS because he was once like they are
Yeah, it's his RDR1 demenour like he's tired of all the supporting characters' bullshit, it's partly a reason why he's one of my favorite video game characters.
You think Marston would know that lmao. He wasn’t even born until the 1870s and he thinks the Blunderbuss was still used 20 years before he was even born
@@josephstalin2606 Um, there was this thing called the American Civil War that happened. Kinda changed the country for generations to come. I'm sure he heard about it and what they used to fight it.
@@Madmax45247 Considering the times and his personal story, chances are his knowledge about the past is rather low. It also doesn't help that he probably never cared neither, so he wouldn't remember most of the stuff he got to know about it.
@@pudie8952 I can guarantee you practically every American that lived in the late 1800's early 1900's knew about the Civil War. Marston wasn't stupid, he knew things others didn't. Seeing as Dutch van der Linde's Father died in the war I'm sure he mentioned it, if he didn't already hear it from someone else.
@@Madmax45247 Never said Marston is dumb, or anything like that, neither than north americand didn't know about their past back then, I may've made a wrong choice of words explaining myself, sorry. I'm saying that John, considering the man he is and the life he lived, probably didn't consider the weapon's era and age by that time. Although I admit it feels pretty inaccurate of him, specially considering RDR2's story backing it up, just trying to give it some sense.
Considering the value of brass back then, I doubt he would just have a brass instrument just lying out in the open for a potential thief to spy upon. Brass was more used back then because better machining tooling(eg carbide inserts) didn't yet exist to make economical steel milling/turning possible. Therefore not only was brass more valuable due to inefficiencies in industry but it was also more demanded for goods that would later be produced out of cheaper steel, diecast, or even aluminum. Also it had more consistency since in the pre-Bessimer days, the quality of 2 pieces of steel manufactured by the same men using the same puddling furnaces and carburization processes could be wildly different.
They unfortunately lost the original build of RDR1, so the odds of them remastering the game are... slim to say the least. Best they can do is RDR2: Expanded and Enhanced
@@spearshake4771 That would be awesome tbh, because RDR2 has never gotten a single re-release before unlike GTA V with it's... Even more seamless character switching.
"Romania to Edinburgh and all the other places the undead roam!" Dickens is a Monster Hunter. His tonics don't work because they're not cure all's for ailments, they are toxins for Vamps and Werewolves. Jk, but could you imagine if they did a spinoff of Undead Nightmare. *Dickens Undead Crusader*
This game on the One X/Series X shows how incredible the RAGE engine is. Even GTA IV, the arguably most aged game using it, still looks stunning under the right conditions. Max Payne 3, Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire... they're all 9 to 11 years old and are still gorgeous. Kinda ironic when you remember the Renderware era games. Games like Bully and GTA San Andreas looked fucking horrible even back then lol
@@shamicentertainment1262 rdr2 just looks amazing. The only game I can think of that looks better is the demons souls remake which is one of the first new gen games. Horizon zero dawn 2 is looking incredible too
Remember when this came out? I think it might have been the last game where the graphics truly wowed me for the time. God of war 5 came pretty close but this was just unbelievable
The blunderbust saved my ass so many times especially since i would find myself running out of ammo and you can look the zombies for ammo for the blunderbust essentially unlimited ammo for an over powered close range weapon in a game where it’s mostly closerange
In reality, the main limiting factor for guns back then would've been the gunpowder. Charcoal is easy to find but you want it to be made from stuff like willow wood which isn't common in the desert. And, while saltpeter can be manufactured from, you know, yellow liquid, there's kind of a limit on how much you can make in a given span of time especially when you're having to compete with farmers who want that same liquid to fertilize plants and trees. This is likely one of the big reasons why guns like blunderbusses weren't as common. They wasted a lot of gunpowder while a rifle was far more efficient. The biggest advantage of such a weapon is that it, like a smooth-bore musket, isn't very accurate and soldiers and civilians in the past often aimed to miss their targets because not everyone is cold-blooded.
Rockstar really does put their budget into the characters with their performances, From the stutters, Subtle changes in tone and well... The character makes even the simplest of characters have some depth.
@@DeadX2 Just as long as you have the powder to actually use as propellant, you can stuff a *lot* of common crap down the barrel for use as projectiles. Broken glass, chunks of brick and stone, if it'll fit and it's not stronger than the barrel, it'll work.
@@ChaplainPhantasm Suppressed? In 1904? John would literally not know what it is. Also, .22 is an awful caliber if your aim is to take down zombies. But I'm sure John would love an modern assault rifle.
@@SummeryMussel9 the irony of him complaining about the blunderbuss being outdated is that he uses both the spencer rifle and Henry which were both massively outdated
Gotta love RDR1 John's attitude, dude just doesn't give a fuck about most of the crazy stuff going around him - only slightly being annoyed by characters like West Dickens or Uncle lol. I wish he acted more like this in the second game's epilogue.
All the Stranger missions are supposed to be done with Arthur, I think that's why he acts like Arthur and not the old John we all know. In a few of the story missions too, he doesn't act like in RDR1 I can't disagree.
Most of them are PC players like myself. I'd really like to get to it, but I can't get myself over playing a game such as this with a controller, I'm god awful. If they ever port it to PC somehow, hell yeah I'll be playing it.
All they do is release dlc content on the same game over and over even though they could make more people happy If they try to make more for red dead one even update and fix what undead nightmare has issues with
Extremely Rural/poor areas of the US can still feel very behind the times. I've seen some small towns tucked away in the hills that I'd swear were still living in the late 90's or early 00's if it weren't for the anachronisms you see like the odd modern truck or LED streetlight. I can only imagine back then when there was much less personal mobility that taking a train from somewhere out west on a once in a lifetime trip to say... New York, would feel like stepping onto an entirely new planet.
@@lordofspearton8643The rural urban divide is a brand of this in almost the entire world. As someone who lives in a very urbanized area rural America is very unsettling.
This game made the American West seem like such an amazing place and time to me. It revitalised my interest in western movies and I was obsessed with the period for years after.
What do you mean? I get that the ole' west was free with open landscapes and little regulation/laws and RDR1 is a game that does protray this pretty well, but RDR1 also makes it look like a f****d-up time period with wildest people ever imaginable; like bandits(a lot of bandits), corrupt lawmen, ridiculously superstitious folk, inbreds, necrophiles, worst kind of racists, snake-oil salesmen and people with guns that are killing each other for fame or sport. And I am not even on tangent about obvious stuff like living conditions or general education.
He’s right, you could use just about anything you could fit in the barrel as ammunition and all of it would be equally if not more devastating than lead shot.
Not really. Lead shot has a high density and the smallest possible surface area. Unless you have a stockpile of depleted uranium or a bunch of gold, there's really nothing better than lead. A piece of steel shot may have a higher muzzle velocity but it slows down much faster after a few feet.
@@ryelor123 8mm steel bearings out of a black powder blunderbuss is DEVASTATING at 50 feet. Around 150 you start to notice a drastic decrease in power. Comparable damage to a .22lr if it just was a bigger projectile at that range. (And obviously that’s assuming you get any to hit the target at that range with the spread of a blunderbuss) The issue with steel bearings isn’t supposed rapid decrease of “power”. It’s that they spread faster then lead shot does. These are of course, only my own observations and experience. The way I load it is likely not reflective of how most would. (I made a sorta stiff fabric “shot cup” and a felt pad directly below it to hold the bearings tighter)
Homies trying to convince John and keep him happy, but still pissed off at his lack of thanks for the weapon. Dickens knew what it could do and probably assumed John would too and when he was displeased, Dickens felt insulted. What am I saying it’s a freakin video game they aren’t thinking anything😂
To this day most developers still avoid showing items being passed between actors and RDR did it back then. It has to be a really hard thing to accomplish properly, otherwise everyone would do it that way instead of hands being off-screen whenever things are being passed around. Also this reminds me of how in RDR2 when Micah is looting Sadie's house you can watch him and depending on the angle you're looking from he staches the items he picks on the opposite side of his belt area so you can't see the items disappearing since he doesn't have a satchel. This kind of care for the small detail is really fascinating to witness.
Here's the thing though; a gun that you can load pretty much anything into as ammunition would actually be perfectly at home in the wild west seeing as you can't always rely on getting decent bullets
@@muebleriascad6604 guts and blackpowder is a game set in the 1800s where zombies appear and one of the weapons that you can use is the blunderbuss and it’s basically a shotgun.
undead nightmare was an awesome expansion. Rockstar doesn’t realize the gains they could get from releasing an undead nightmare 2. we can only hope and dream🤡
Too bad it's impossible to finish, always the same mission where you go to a graveyard and you can't do the objective, infinite zombies spawn, non of my friends finished it either
@@prich0382 I never had many issues. I loved undead nightmare. the rare horses of the apocalypse were fun to try and collect. the challenges, the outfits. gaming used to be different. I laughed so much at the dialogue of undead nightmare.
@@themadtitan7603 Well RDO is a more of an old dying car that they only very rarely put up for the most basic routine maintenance while GTO is (sadly) their money-making Ferrari LaFerrari. So much potential squandered :/
i think this is showing how fast the gun industry was progressing. in the 1800s we went from matchlock to flintlock to caplock to "action"s to automatic just by 1892. and now one of the worlds most popular handguns is a century old
And despite all that, shotguns still sucked, the Philippine-American War was notorious for how those paper cartridge shotgun shells were useless. That's why the US wanted a .45 sidearm as a backup, something with stopping power that wouldn't be so unreliable as a shotgun.
Matchlocks would have been an anochronism even in the 1700's, let alone the 1800's. By the late 1600's everyone was going over to flintlocks. As for the transition from flintlock, to caplock, to smokeless and self contained cartridges and even the first automatics, yeah, that all happened in 50 years. Might be nitpicking, but saying that they were using matchlocks in the 1800's is the same time difference as saying we used muzzle loaders in the 2000's.
@@Alguien644 Who used them effectively in WWI? All of one army in WWI on the Western Front used shotguns and only on recon patrols. Were shotguns used on the African theatre or something?
I remember my friend and I buying RDR one year on Black Friday. We took it back to her house and played it for fucking hours at night. We would take turns when we would die. I swear those are some of the best memories.
"Would I lie to you, John? To others, I admit the occasional sin of ommision, but to you, never dear boy." Another definition for admit is to permit something. So to others he permits to lie occasionally but never to John.
It was safer back then to make jokes since the people who made the games weren't typical citizens but instead the outcasts that the rest of society ignored. Now in days, you can't make certain jokes without some greedy thief claiming to be offended and starting a mud-flinging hissy fit in order to get money from losers who want to feel like they're making the world a better place without doing any actual work(except that which was necessary to earn the money they threw away). Once you realize that the average person will throw cash at people who claim to be fighting against bad things, you'll understand the problems of the modern world. People want to feel better about themselves without actually being good people. The guy who donates $100 to an activist flipping out over the portrayal of black men in video games can feel better about himself when he dials 911 the moment he sees a black man walking on the sidewalk outside his home in the gated community.
I know I'm not the only one who became a fan by playing RDR1 in 2010, but I can't stop feeling that I'm the only one. I played the trilogy, and for me, RDR1 is still the best one.
@@nightfall1826 RDR2 is a better VIDEO game while RDR1 is a better video GAME. I can perfectly understand preferring RDR1 since the gameplay is more fun and for me, that's what matters most.
@@JC-gl7ee there's a glitch in undead nightmare that I will randomly spawn invisible headless torso glitch if you try to save the game it will not load or save so I've been extra careful when I've been playing Undead Nightmare somehow I'm at Fort Mercer.
Underrated expansion....and heavily needed legit as an expansion in RDR2 from Rockstar themselves....was such an interesting idea, and it worked so well.
It would only be Great great grandson most likely, the game takes place in 1911 & Lester is decently middle aged by 2013, but I totally agree they both have the same speech patterns.